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View article: Magnetic‐Driven Viscous Mechanisms in Ultra‐Soft Magnetorheological Elastomers Offer History‐Dependent Actuation with Reprogrammability Options
Magnetic‐Driven Viscous Mechanisms in Ultra‐Soft Magnetorheological Elastomers Offer History‐Dependent Actuation with Reprogrammability Options Open
This work elucidates an important open question in the field of mechanically soft magnetorheological elastomers (MREs): how microstructural rearrangements during magnetic actuation modulate their viscoelastic behavior. Experimental assays …
View article: MagPiezo: a Magnetogenetic Platform for Remote Activation of Endogenous Piezo1 Channels in Endothelial Cells
MagPiezo: a Magnetogenetic Platform for Remote Activation of Endogenous Piezo1 Channels in Endothelial Cells Open
This work introduces MagPiezo, a novel magnetogenetic platform designed to enable remote and targeted manipulation of endogenous Piezo1 channels without genetic modification. MagPiezo integrates a custom-built magnetic applicator and 19 nm…
View article: Reprogrammable Mechanical Metamaterials via Passive and Active Magnetic Interactions
Reprogrammable Mechanical Metamaterials via Passive and Active Magnetic Interactions Open
This study experimentally demonstrates the reprogrammability of a rotating‐squares‐based mechanical metamaterial with an embedded array of permanent magnets. How the orientation, residual magnetization, and stiffness of the magnets influen…
View article: In-silico platform for the multifunctional design of 3D printed conductive components
In-silico platform for the multifunctional design of 3D printed conductive components Open
The effective electric resistivity of conductive thermoplastics manufactured by filament extrusion methods is determined by both the material constituents and the printing parameters. The former determines the multifunctional nature of the…
View article: Magnetic Actuation for Mechanomedicine
Magnetic Actuation for Mechanomedicine Open
View article: Magnetic Actuation for Mechanomedicine
Magnetic Actuation for Mechanomedicine Open
In the perspective of this article, the emergence of materials and systems for magneto‐mechanical actuation in the field of mechanobiology is presented, and their potential to promote and advance biomedical research is discussed. These mat…
View article: Magneto-mechanically derived diffusion processes in ultra-soft biological hydrogels
Magneto-mechanically derived diffusion processes in ultra-soft biological hydrogels Open
Magneto-active hydrogels (MAHs) consist of a polymeric network doped with magnetic particles that enable the material to mechanically respond to magnetic stimuli. This multifunctionality allows for modulation of mechanical properties in a …
View article: Magneto‐Responsive Bistable Structures with Rate‐Dependent Actuation Modes (Adv. Funct. Mater. 25/2024)
Magneto‐Responsive Bistable Structures with Rate‐Dependent Actuation Modes (Adv. Funct. Mater. 25/2024) Open
Magneto-Responsive Bistable Structures The combination of viscoelasticity and magneto-mechanics fundamentals conceptualizes a new designing concept for bistable structures. In article number 2313865, Daniel Garcia-Gonzalez and co-workers c…
View article: Mechanical and Functional Responses in Astrocytes under Alternating Deformation Modes Using Magneto‐Active Substrates
Mechanical and Functional Responses in Astrocytes under Alternating Deformation Modes Using Magneto‐Active Substrates Open
This work introduces NeoMag, a system designed to enhance cell mechanics assays in substrate deformation studies. NeoMag uses multidomain magneto‐active materials to mechanically actuate the substrate, transmitting reversible mechanical cu…
View article: Magneto‐Responsive Bistable Structures with Rate‐Dependent Actuation Modes
Magneto‐Responsive Bistable Structures with Rate‐Dependent Actuation Modes Open
Structural instabilities can be used to provide rapid responses activated by mechanical force or displacement thresholds. The emergence of responsive materials has opened the door for adapting such structural instabilities to actuators tha…
View article: Tumor proliferation and invasion are intrinsically coupled and unraveled through tunable spheroid and physics-based models
Tumor proliferation and invasion are intrinsically coupled and unraveled through tunable spheroid and physics-based models Open
Proliferation and invasion are two key drivers of tumor growth that are traditionally considered independent multicellular processes. However, these processes are intrinsically coupled through a maximum carrying capacity, i.e., the maximum…
View article: Thermo-electro-mechanical microstructural interdependences in conductive thermoplastics
Thermo-electro-mechanical microstructural interdependences in conductive thermoplastics Open
Additive manufacturing has enabled the design of thermoplastic components that provide structural support, electrical conductivity and heat generation modulated by mechanical deformation. The mechanisms and interplays that govern the mater…
View article: Model-driven identification framework for optimal constitutive modeling from kinematics and rheological arrangement
Model-driven identification framework for optimal constitutive modeling from kinematics and rheological arrangement Open
Soft materials such as biological tissues or magnetorheological elastomers present complex mechanical behaviors that include large deformations, numerous nonlinearities, time- or even external field (magnetic)-dependent responses. The desc…
View article: Influence of magnetic boundary conditions on the quantitative modelling of magnetorheological elastomers
Influence of magnetic boundary conditions on the quantitative modelling of magnetorheological elastomers Open
View article: Hard magnetics in ultra-soft magnetorheological elastomers enhance fracture toughness and delay crack propagation
Hard magnetics in ultra-soft magnetorheological elastomers enhance fracture toughness and delay crack propagation Open
View article: Computationally Guided DIW Technology to Enable Robust Printing of Inks with Evolving Rheological Properties (Adv. Mater. Technol. 3/2023)
Computationally Guided DIW Technology to Enable Robust Printing of Inks with Evolving Rheological Properties (Adv. Mater. Technol. 3/2023) Open
Direct Ink Writing In article number 2201707, Daniel Garcia-Gonzalez and co-workers present a new direct ink writing approach that allows optimal printability of time-dependent viscosity inks. A combination of theoretical and experimental …
View article: Computationally Guided DIW Technology to Enable Robust Printing of Inks with Evolving Rheological Properties
Computationally Guided DIW Technology to Enable Robust Printing of Inks with Evolving Rheological Properties Open
Soft multifunctional materials allow for mechanical sensing or actuation as a response to multiple physical stimuli, while providing material stiffness that mimic soft biological tissues (≈1–10 kPa). One of the main bottlenecks in the stat…
View article: Tumor proliferation and invasion are coupled through cell-extracellular matrix friction
Tumor proliferation and invasion are coupled through cell-extracellular matrix friction Open
Cell proliferation and invasion are two key drivers of tumor progression and are traditionally considered two independent cellular processes regulated by distinct pathways. Through in vitro and in silico methods, we provide evidence that t…
View article: Hard-magnetic phenomena enable autonomous self-healing elastomers
Hard-magnetic phenomena enable autonomous self-healing elastomers Open
We propose a new concept of self-healing soft material that does not require external actuation to heal after rupture. This consists of a sticky and soft elastomeric matrix filled with hard-magnetic particles. When the material breaks into…
View article: Insights into the viscohyperelastic response of soft magnetorheological elastomers: Competition of macrostructural versus microstructural players
Insights into the viscohyperelastic response of soft magnetorheological elastomers: Competition of macrostructural versus microstructural players Open
Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are multifunctional composites that consist of an elastomeric matrix filled with magnetic particles. These materials respond to an external magnetic field by mechanically deforming and/or changing their…
View article: Hybrid magnetorheological elastomers enable versatile soft actuators
Hybrid magnetorheological elastomers enable versatile soft actuators Open
View article: Beam formulation and FE framework for architected structures under finite deformations
Beam formulation and FE framework for architected structures under finite deformations Open
The breakthrough in additive manufacturing (AM) techniques is opening new routes into the conceptualisation of novel architected materials. However, there are still important roadblocks impeding the full implementation of these technologie…
View article: Effects of soft and hard magnetic particles on the mechanical performance of ultra-soft magnetorheological elastomers
Effects of soft and hard magnetic particles on the mechanical performance of ultra-soft magnetorheological elastomers Open
Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) mechanically respond to external magnetic stimuli by changing their mechanical properties and/or changing their shape. Recent studies have shown the great potential of MREs when manufactured with an ext…
View article: Magneto-mechanical system to reproduce and quantify complex strain patterns in biological materials
Magneto-mechanical system to reproduce and quantify complex strain patterns in biological materials Open
View article: Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Aging and Degradation of Conductive 3d Printed Polymers
Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Aging and Degradation of Conductive 3d Printed Polymers Open
View article: Recent advances in hard-magnetic soft composites: Synthesis, characterisation, computational modelling, and applications
Recent advances in hard-magnetic soft composites: Synthesis, characterisation, computational modelling, and applications Open
View article: Tuning the Cell and Biological Tissue Environment through Magneto-Active Materials
Tuning the Cell and Biological Tissue Environment through Magneto-Active Materials Open
This review focuses on novel applications based on multifunctional materials to actuate biological processes. The first section of the work revisits the current knowledge on mechanically dependent biological processes across several scales…
View article: New experimental insights into magneto-mechanical rate dependences of magnetorheological elastomers
New experimental insights into magneto-mechanical rate dependences of magnetorheological elastomers Open
Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs), consisting of an elastomeric matrix filled with magnetic particles,
\nare one of the most promising multifunctional composites. The main advantage of these materials is their
\nresponse to external mag…
View article: Microstructural modelling of hard-magnetic soft materials: Dipole–dipole interactions versus Zeeman effect
Microstructural modelling of hard-magnetic soft materials: Dipole–dipole interactions versus Zeeman effect Open
View article: Influence of elastomeric matrix and particle volume fraction on the mechanical response of magneto-active polymers
Influence of elastomeric matrix and particle volume fraction on the mechanical response of magneto-active polymers Open
Magneto-active polymers (MAPs) are revolutionising the fields of material science and solid mechanics as well as having an important presence in the bioengineering community. These composites consist of a polymeric matrix (i.e., elastomer)…